One way the glitazone drugs like Avandia and Actos work is by stimulating more stem cells to differentiate into fat cells. This can make patients gain weight. But the new baby fat cells are much less insulin resistant than the old stuffed fat...
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Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that, given the proper signals, can differentiate into various types of specialized cells. Some stem cells can produce either fat cells or muscle cells or bone cells, depending on what kind of signals they get.
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